Sentences with phrase «influential avant»

Two years later, Ms. Rainer and Ms. Forti became founding members of the influential avant - garde Judson Dance Theater, which often used concepts by John Cage as springboards.

She studied with Yusef Lateef and Jim Nadel, and has worked with a diverse range of influential avant jazz, improv, and sound artists.

But also that's such influential avant - garde performance.

More details on this important and influential avant - garde gallery in our blog post The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art — Exhibition Timeline and Artists 1929 - 1932.

Further south on the European continent, Italy introduced its own version of the trend, called Trans - Avantgarde, introduced by critic Achille Bonito Oliva as a response to another Italian influential avant - guard, Arte Povera.

Of a total of six shows currently on view, four center around Asia — a retrospective of Gutai, Japan's most influential avant - garde post-war collective, a solo show of New York based artist of Indian origin, Zarina Hashmi, an installation by Danh Vo, a Vietnamese artist living in Denmark, and the No Country exhibit.

Rooted in the Metaphysical Painting of Giorgio de Chirico (1888 - 1978), the revolutionary painterly ideas of Cubism, the subversive art of Dada and the psychoanalysis ideas of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, Surrealism was the most influential avant - garde art movement of the inter-war years.

Teige also edited some of the most influential avant - garde journals on Czech and international cultural affairs and wrote profoundly original books and essays on art and architecture.

The Arte Povera (Poor Art or Proletarian Art) flourished during the period 1967 - 1972 and took place in cities throughout Italy: Turin, Milan, Rome, Genoa, Venice, Naples and Bologna, was the most significant and influential Avant - Garde movement to emerge in Europe in the»60s.

«Kazuo Shiraga joined Gutai — one of Japan's most influential avant - garde movements — in 1955 and, internationally, is one of the group's most well - known members,» comments Christie's specialist Anastasia von Seibold.

By presenting simultaneous exhibitions by two Gutai masters across both venues in London, the galleries will highlight the legacy of this influential avant - garde collective.

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1 - James Joyce: An Irish novelist and poet, Joyce was one of the most influential writers among the modernist avant - garde of the early 20th century.

Founders David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka explain further: «It was alongside the rise of the Soviet era when the Russian avant - garde movement started one of the most influential creative revolutions in the 20th century.

With its exhibitions and events, the opening of a gallery in London's West End, together with the publication of the influential Signals Newsbulletin, Signals became a centre for experimental international artists, with links formed between the avant gardes of Latin America, Europe and London.

In 1991, Houk teamed with Barry Friedman, an influential dealer specializing in Art Deco and avant - garde art, to open the Houk Friedman Gallery in New York.

The book recounts how Wardlaw was raised on a farm in Mississippi and emerged from his modest beginnings to become a member of the New York avant - garde art scene of the 1950s and 1960s and, later, an influential teacher.

Despite spending the majority of his life in Delft, the Netherlands, where he worked from 1946 to 1979 as a civil servant for the Dutch Postal Service, Schoonhoven rose to artistic prominence as an active and influential member of the international avant garde.

Influential as a teacher and chair of Columbia University's vaunted Visual Arts Program and an original member of New York's CUE Art Foundation, Amenoff has long been one of an unorganized, lyric, hermetic avant - garde.

The history of Italian contemporary art is twofold: it's proven highly influential in the development of international art history, contributing to the avant - garde lineage through movements like Metaphysics, Process Art and Arte Povera; and yet it remains partially unknown, with much room for research and reassessment.

The West Coast Avant Garde: 1950 — Present is a survey of the incredible work made in California beginning in the mid-1950's and continuing to present day by a careful selection of influential artists.

The Center for Italian Modern Art makes its grand opening in New York with an exhibition of Futurist Art, one of the most influential Italian avant - garde movements of the 20th century

Ben Brown Fine Arts is proud to present a focused exhibition of the ZERO movement, a hugely influential German avant - garde movement co-founded by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene in 1957, and later joined by Günther Uecker in 1961.

In the mid-1960s, she established herself in New York as an important avant - garde artist by staging groundbreaking and influential happenings, events, and exhibitions.

on view from May 29 - September 30, 2015, charts the artist's beginnings in a small Mississippi farming town during the Great Depression to his journey to New York's avant - garde art scene and his career as a influential teacher at Yale Universiy and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

The longstanding secrecy surrounding Gerstl's dramatic and untimely suicide at the age of 25, and the scandalous love affair that preceded his death, only further magnify the legend that has grown around this lesser known, but influential member of Vienna's artistic avant - garde at the turn of the twentieth century.

Famed modernist poet Barbara Guest, a winner of the prestigious Robert Frost Medal and the best - known woman in the influential New York School of avant - garde poets, died in a Berkeley hospital Wednesday of complications from a series of strokes.

The Russian avant - garde was a large, influential wave of avant - garde modern art that flourished in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, approximately from 1890 to 1930 — although some have placed its beginning as early as 1850 and its end as late as 1960.

Profoundly influential and tastefully provocative, the multi-talented designer used fashion to challenge conventions, defying expectations with his unwavering avant - gardism as expressed in collaborations with Wim Wenders, Pina Bausch and Takeshi Kitano.

There, he observed firsthand the latest works of the European avant - garde, and made acquaintances with influential artists, dealers, and curators.

Leading person of the Russian avant - garde, Vladimir Tatlin was a Soviet artist and founder of the widely influential Constructivist movement.

In the mid-1960s, the artist established herself in New York as an important avant - garde artist by staging groundbreaking and influential happenings, events, and exhibitions.

Among the Greenberg's most influential works, which he published mostly in Partisan Review, the Nation, and Commentary, are Avant - Garde and Kitsch from 1939, Towards a Newer Laocoon (1940), The Crisis of the Easel Picture (1948), Modernist Painting which was delivered initially as a radio broadcast on The Voice of America Forum Lectures: The Visual Arts (1960), After Abstract Expressionism (1962), and «American - Type» Painting (1955).

However, his ironic self - portraits posed in a Mao suit in front of American landmarks found their way to Communist China and were profoundly influential for China ‟ s avant - garde, including conceptual artists Song Dong and Zhang Huan, who were exposed to Tseng ‟ s images through western magazines smuggled into the country in the 1980 ‟ s. Tseng ‟ s photographs not only satirized relations between the United States and its emerging rival, China, but also broadcasted his freedom of movement - a privilege denied most Chinese artists at the time.

The German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887 — 1948) remains one of the most influential figures of the international avant - garde.

In this podcast, produced on the occasion of the Gallery exhibition Jaromír Funke and the Amateur Avant - Garde, Witkovsky talks to host Barbara Tempchin about the Czech photographer's influential role in this movement.

Recent Work and Other Myths combines appropriated pages from The Originality of the Avant - Garde and Other Modernist Myths — a collection of 15 essays by the influential American critic Rosalind E. Krauss — and screendumps from the artist's Instagram account, where he has posted photos of discarded items he has stumbled across in the street.

In addition, the assemblages and writings of the American avant - garde artist Allan Kaprow (b. 1927)- notably his 1966 book «Assemblage, Environments and Happenings» - were also highly influential on the development of the Installation genre.

Gutai: Splendid Playground February 15 — May 8, 2013 Gutai: Splendid Playground is the first North American museum exhibition devoted to Gutai, the most influential artists» collective and artistic movement in postwar Japan and one of the most important international avant - garde movements of the 1950s and 1960s.

One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, the German - born Albers came to the U.S. in 1933 to lead the noted avant - garde institution Black Mountain College after the Nazis closed his famed Bauhaus school.

Ferus, the first professional space in L.A. to be principally devoted to the Southern California avant - garde, rapidly became the most adventurous and influential contemporary art gallery west of Manhattan.

Best known for his daring use of color and the verve of his personality, Carles was an influential instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) who embraced the modern age and introduced his students to the work and ideas of the European avant - garde.

There, she was active in avant - garde circles during the formative years of pop art and minimalism, exhibiting her work alongside such artists as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow — figures who have cited Kusama as influential to the development of assemblage, environmental art and performative practices.

Co-founded by Alice Denney — matron of the Washington avant - garde who went on to found the wildly successful community darling, Washington Project for the Arts — the gallery brought a wealth of influential American artists and works to the District, while garnering national attention to working artists within the city.

Three of Japan's most influential photographers are on view at Norwich's Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (until 19 March): Kikuji Kawada, revered for lyrical black - and - white images of natural phenomena; Eikoh Hosoe, who came to prominence with avant - garde portraits; and Nobuyoshi Araki, perhaps the most famous of the three in this country, who has gained acclaim and notoriety for his erotically charged images.

Having featured in several exhibitions of his work, Number 7, 1951 most recently appeared in Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots (Tate Liverpool and Dallas Museum of Art, 2015) and was used as the sole illustration for Meyer Schapiro's important 1957 Artnews article «The Liberating Quality of Avant - Garde Art,» which is considered one of the most influential articles ever published in the magazine.

The fifth in our series on art books and essays which have changed the way we see and understand the visual arts, today focusing particularly on Clement Greenberg's influential essays «Avant - Garde and the Kitsch» (1939) and «The Plight of Culture» (1953), both of which were republished in the 1961 Art and Culture: Critical Essays.

These three formed a sort of outpost of avant - garde art in St Ives, which was significantly boosted, from about 1950, by the appearance of a group of younger artists, including Peter Lanyon (1918 - 1964), Bryan Wynter (1915 - 1975), Terry Frost (1915 - 2003), and Patrick Heron (1920 - 1999), as well as the attendance of the influential modernist art critic Herbert Read (1893 - 1968).

By then he was a leading figure of the Munich avant - garde and, together with German painter Franz Marc, he would found the hugely influential Expressionist «Blue Rider» movement in 1911, named for his painting, Der Blaue Reiter (1903).

Although only active from 1933 to 1935, and responsible for only one exhibition, which opened at the Mayor Gallery in Cork Street, London, before touring Britain and Northern Ireland, Unit One was highly influential in establishing the importance of London as a centre of abstract art and avant - garde architecture during the mid-1930s.

In Russian art, the term «Knave of Diamonds», alternatively the «Jack of Diamonds» (in Russian: Bubnoviyi Valet), was an influential group established in Moscow in 1910 to hold exhibitions of avant - garde art from Europe and Russia.